There were two events on the same day 18 Apr 2009. Sun Microsystems for the 3rd Year running worked shoulder to shoulder with the help of Vee Clean and Green volunteers to clean plastic litter from Sangam (~45 Km from Kankapura).
Pradeep Singh and Rakesh Chandra - key volunteers from Vee Clean and Green.
Trip Details :
Sun Microsystems World Wide Volunteer Week, 2009 kick started on 18 April from the Sun office at Divyasree Chambers, when two buses, full of volunteers, started at 7:00 AM for a Clean up Drive. We were headed towards Sangam, Confluence of Arkavathi and Kaveri rivers.
In the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary amidst forests, 100 Kms from Bangalore this is a beautiful picnic spot which attracts thousands of picnickers every year. Like many other picnic spots Sangam is also littered with lots of plastic bags, bottles and plastic cups which is very harmful for environment.
55 people from all walks of life, Sun Employees, their family and friends, students form UVCE, RVCE, PESIT and RNSIT and volunteers from Vee Clean and Green joined in for this drive. We had introductions and fun games on the way before stopping for breakfast at a school campus in a village. We reached Sangam at 10:30 AM.
Here people formed small teams. With rakes, gunny bags and gloves in their hands volunteers were collecting and segregating plastic under 3 categories. From the stretch of both sides of Arkavati river, bringing the loads of plastic in gunny bags to the team doing stuffing and stitching of these bags. Another team of volunteers took charge of installing and painting four dustbins. When this all was happening some volunteers took care of supply of enough water and fresh lime to all volunteers and also spreading awareness among local people and picnickers. Overall it was a great team work, with volunteers working in hot summer, which resulted in collection of 140 Kg of plastic and a lots cleaner Sangam.
Jungle Lodges and Resorts are helping Vee Clean and Green to deliver the collected plastic to KK Plastic Waste Management Pvt Ltd., for recycling, and they offered their help in this event too.
After lunch at 2:00 PM people took some rest under the trees. There we could feel the serenity of nature. Its a bliss being being so close to nature.
One Bus started back at 3:00 PM. Some people stayed back to explore Mekedatu and started back in second bus at 5:00 PM. We had some snacks on the way back in bus and had as exciting round of Antakshari. This bus reached back by 8:00 PM.
